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As announced at the Vista Team Blog, brave folks and testers can now get their hands on the Service Pack 2 beta for Vista and Windows 2008. While it was announced earlier in the week, the files just recently showed up. Note: You must have Service Pack 1 already installed. This is not a cumulative  December 14th, 2008 |  Tags: beta, service-pack, vista, windows-2008, windows-update |  Leave a comment I had to do a factory restore on a Windows XP Tablet PC today. That, in itself, wasn’t all that tough (we’ll ignore the wasted few hours when I mistakenly installed XP Pro [not Tablet] on it…). After the recovery was completed, I ran into an interesting challenge with Microsoft Update though. The restore process left December 8th, 2008 | Tags: firewall, microsoft-update, service-pack, Windows, windows-update, XP | Leave a comment If you’re an XP user used to using the /console switch to manage your servers, be aware that going to Service Pack 3 will alter your Remote Desktop options a bit. Specifically, you’ll now need to use the /admin switch instead. This makes it very similar to using Remote Desktop with Vista, as I discovered earlier this I just noticed that Windows XP Service Pack 3 is available from Windows Update — or you can download it directly. I build a lot of machines for both home and work and I’m very excited to finally see this. No more 95 or so patches after an XP SP2 install! Now I’m off to check the Writing this up as the result of a nudge from our CIO: We had the situation described below and didn't find a whole lot as we searched the web for tips. So, next time this happens to someone, maybe this'll help. While making web service call from one of our (classic ASP) web applications, |
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